For my assigned blog number 5 i was given the topic: War Production Board of World War 2.
The war production board was an agency that worked for the United states government for war production purposes. This Production board was established in January 16, 1942. This was produced by the Executive Order of 9024 of Franklin D Roosevelt. The supply priorities, Allocation board and office of production management were running. But when they passed the War Production Board, it replaced them. This board made policies and created advisory.
The national war production board's main purpose was changing the civilian industry into war production. The War Production Board controlled twelve regional offices, and they operated 120 field offices throughout the nation. National war production board worked with state war production boards, which kept up good, accurate records on state war production facilities and also helped state businesses keep war contracts and loans. Factories promoted using scraps such as metals, paper, and rubber. This was the mass production for all war products. Companies were encouraged to stop what they were making at the time and start making things that could be useful to the people at war. This is a very big reason to why we won the war, because we had products coming and we weren't ever running out of things because people kept on making and producing items to help win the war. The government and factory owners tried to be very kind to the factory workers so that they would not go on strike and they would continue to work without much complaint.
During World War 2 Oklahoma produced aircraft, weapons, ammunition, explosives, chemicals, aviation gasoline, petroleum products and some ship parts such as masts and valves. war production board really help the military as in 1940 there was a total of 6,000 air crafts and now there is 85,000 in 1943. This made a very very big difference! Factories that were making silk items, such as silk ribbons began to make parachutes and factories that were making cars and automobiles were now constructing and building tanks. Many other things were also converted. If any of the converting factories needed supplies to equipment to make and operate in there new war item. They were given it.
I think that without the war production board we wouldn't have gotten anywhere in the war. This helped us out tremendously! i was kind of surprised when i heard some of the things that were converted into helping the war. like type writer companies converted to machine guns and roller coaster manufacturer's companies converted to bomber repair platforms. I was very surprised.
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Well done Asia but don't forget to list your sources.